Was Jesus Christ a conservative or a liberal?

Answer 1

It depends on which bible Jesus story you read. The liberal one where he says to love your enemy or the Conservative Jesus who tells his disciples to bring those who would not follow him before him and slay them.

Conservative Jesus quotes:

"Think not that I am come to send peace: I came not to send peace but a sword." (Matthew 10:34) "He that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one." (Luke 22:36) "But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me." (Luke 19:27.

The burning of unbelievers during the Inquisition was based on the words of Jesus: "If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned." (John 15:6)

Jesus looked at his critics "with anger" (Mark 3:5), and attacked merchants with a whip (John 2:15). He showed his respect for life by drowning innocent animals (Matthew 8:32). He refused to heal a sick child until he was pressured by the mother (Matthew 15:22-28).

The most revealing aspect of his character was his promotion of eternal torment. "The Son of man [Jesus himself] shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth." (Matthew 13:41-42) "And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched." (Mark 9:43)

"If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple." (Luke 14:26)

"I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man's foes shall be they of his own household." (Matthew 10:35-36)

When one of his disciples requested time off for his father's funeral, Jesus rebuked him: "Let the dead bury their dead." (Matthew 8:22)

Jesus never used the word "family." He never married or fathered children. To his own mother, he said, "Woman, what have I to do with thee?" (John 2:4)

Jesus encouraged the beating of slaves: "And that servant [slave], which knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes." (Luke 12:47) He never denounced servitude, incorporating the master-slave relationship into many of his parables.

He did nothing to alleviate poverty. Rather than sell some expensive ointment to help the poor, Jesus wasted it on himself, saying, "Ye have the poor with you always." (Mark 14:3-7)

He irrationally cursed a fig tree for being fruitless out of season (Matthew 21:18-19, and Mark 11:13-14). He broke the law by stealing corn on the Sabbath (Mark 2:23), and he encouraged his disciples to take a horse without asking permission (Matthew 21).

The "humble" Jesus said that he was "greater than the temple" (Matt 12:6), "greater than Jonah" (Matthew 12:41), and "greater than Solomon" (Matthew 12:42). He appeared to suffer from a dictator's "paranoia" when he said, "He that is not with me is against me" (Matthew 12:30).

Answer 2

Neither label fits Jesus. He was conservative because He said we all should follow God's laws, yet the wine making thing is s9omething liberals love.

Answer 3

Jesus was anything but a conservative. Especially on economic issues, he was radical compared to both the Jewish and Roman leaders of the day. If anything, on economic issues, he was a socialist.

On social issues he was a revolutionary. He constantly sided with those that were downtrodden, poor, and cast-off from society. During his life, however, he did keep to all of the Jewish religious laws (i.e. kosher, sabbath, etc.), so his radicalism was expressed in his relation with his fellow man rather than that with god.

Answer 4

He was a conservative because he loved freedom, not the government controlling everyone. He simply said give to Cesar what is Cesar's and that was it as far as the government goes. Liberals believe people must be forced to give their money to care for the needy; Jesus just told people to but never threatened them to. Whereas liberals love to threaten: you give our we raise taxes and make you give and you shall be happy!

Answer 5

Conservative in his manners and ways and most of his thoughts but outwardly liberal, at least, liberal for those days.
Not like liberals are today. And he would probably be a democrat but not like today's maybe more like JFK.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

As far as the Pharisees were concerned he was an arch conservative. A reactionary.

Answer 8

Today's conservatives worship yesterday's liberals.

Answer 9

None of the above. He was a messiah

Answer 10

He was neither they didn't exist then, if he was either I would say Conservative.

Answer 11

I gather someone once told you that you are a very witty person. I assure you they were merely being polite.